Tag: Communication

Confident Communication 

Good communication is confident.  Good, effective communication is not deferential. It is confident.  Good, effective communication is not arrogant; it is confident.  Good communication can absolutely be in the form

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Difficult Conversations 

We have to have them, and we often procrastinate, avoid, or ignore them…difficult conversations.  But life doesn’t wait for us. Too often, in our rush to put off the tough conversations,

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Understand First 

So much of effective communication is listening first for understanding.  I find one of the hardest parts of leading meetings or finding common ground with

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Helping Others Change 

They say the only constant in life is change.   Change is hard, though, and my own anecdotal experience indicates that most people don’t like –

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Customer Service

Let’s talk about how the customer relationship should work…   There’s an old saying that the customer is always right. The sentiment behind this is fantastic

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Sour Grapes

The sour grapes story: an ancient human tries to reach grapes growing on a tree. The branch with the grapes is too tall, and the

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